Tuesday, October 18, 2005

New blog

Barbara is now blogging at the Association of College and Research Libraries blog, ACRLog. The blog's focus: "Blogging by and for academic and research librarians."

4 comments:

Barbara said...
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Barbara said...

Thanks for noticing! I forwarded the link in your previous post to the other ACRL bloggers. We're all more or less winging it. It will be interesting to see how it develops and whether it fulfills the need that Scott McLemee identified. He wrote about it today in Inside Higher Ed. And I was tickled he bothered to look up the Joan Bechtel article that I have always admired - and his conclusion that "Academic librarians were cultivating the blogosphere even before there was one...." Nice!

Alec said...

Barbara, I haven't heard of this article before... Would I have run across this citation somewhere? Sounds like I should add this to my professional reading list.

Barbara said...

Oh, it's a great piece, imo. The citation is Joan M. Bechtel, "Conversation, a New Paradigm for Librarianship?" College & Research Libraries 47 (May 1986): 219-224. Her basic argument is that we should think of entering a library (or doing research, or helping students learn how to do research) as entering a conversation. It has a lot in common with philosopher Michale Oakshott's theories, though I don't think she cites him. It just makes a ton o' sense to me, though.